Embedded Files
Yoichi Okamoto
Yoichi "Oke" Okamoto was born in 1915 in Yonkers, New York. He served as a visual correspondent in World War II, later joining the staff of a Syracuse, N.Y., newspaper. He later joined the Johnson Administration after the JFK assassination as the first ever Official White House Photographer. After leaving that post, he formed Image Inc., a D.C. based photo lab that he ran until officially retiring. Okamoto received numerous awards and was featured in "The Family of Man," an exhibition led by Edward Steichen. He had solo shows, attended seminars, gave a keynote address and was an instructor at the University of Missouri photojournalism seminar in the summer of 1961. He passed away on April 25, 1985.
Faculty Mentors
Kim Komenich
Komenich is an associate professor and head of the photojournalism sequence at San Francisco State University. He has taught photojournalism and documentary photography since 1987. Among numerous other accolades, Komenich was awarded the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography for photographs of the 1986 Philippine “People Power” Revolution he made while on assignment for Hearst’s San Francisco Examiner. His project “Revolution Revisited” is part of an ongoing re-examination of the Philippine People Power revolution which includes a 2016 book and upcoming 70-minute documentary film as well as exhibition tours in the Philippines and the U.S.
Becky Lebowitz Hanger
A long-time photo editor in the New York Times photography department, Lebowitz became The Times’ operations manager and photographers’ chief in 2019. She is widely considered to be a talented coach, mentor and editor to photographers. Lebowitz was a crucial force in some of The Times’ most ambitious and collaborative long-term projects including “Snow Fall” and “Deliverance from 27,000 Feet.” She also served as Josh Haner’s editor for his Pulitzer-winning project about Jeff Bauman after the Boston Marathon bombing.
Photographers
Andres Chaves
Matilda Hay
Hailey Hoffman
Kaitlyn McConnell
Eleazar Yisrael
Eileen Wisniowicz
Sofia Navarrete Zur
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